Proactive communities in fire-prone regions across the country are planning strategies and taking action to reduce the threat of wildfire loss. Comprehensive wildfire risk and hazard assessments are common compliance requirements for community annexations, new developments, as well as public lands and government installations. Insurance carriers are requiring homeowners to mitigate properties in order to maintain coverage. Certified community wildfire protection plans are now considered a prerequisite for state and federal wildfire and mitigation grants.
Walsh provides a comprehensive, cost effective suite of wildfire hazard and risk assessment solutions for homeowners, neighborhoods, communities, counties, and public land management agencies. A wildfire hazard and risk assessment may be a stand-alone project, such as a community wildfire protection plan, or part of a larger-scale ecological study that requires a comprehensive wildfire and fuels analysis.
Teamed with our parent company, Ecology & Environment, Inc. (E & E), the Walsh staff offers a professional team of wildfire experts as well as a wide range of supporting ecologists, land use planners, environmental engineers, landscape architects, and mapping specialists for creative and cost effective end-to-end project management solutions.
Services
Walsh provides targeted wildfire solutions utilizing a proven and flexible methodology that incorporates the unique needs of any Wildland-Urban Interface assessment area with the latest mapping analysis technologies and extensive hands-on wildfire and fuels management experience. Risk and hazard assessment and related services include:
- Community Wildfire Protection Plans
- Fuels management and mitigation planning
- Wildfire hazard and risk assessment
- Community planning
- NEPA analysis
- Wildfire management plans
- Precision mapping, GIS and remote sensing
- Pre-suppression/pre-attack planning
- Landscape architecture
- Community outreach
- Fire behavior and smoke dispersion modeling
- Post-fire ecological restoration and rehabilitation
Project Experience
Forest and Wildfire Management Plan, Georgetown Loop, Colorado Historical Society
Forest and Wildfire Management Plan, Brush Creek Ranch, Wyoming
Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) Clear Creek County, Colorado
CWPPs, Upper Chama, Eddy County, Lincoln County, and McKinley County, New Mexico
CWPPs, Jefferson County Office of Emergency Management. Nine fire protection districts, Jefferson County, Colorado.
Wildfire Management Plans, US Air Force. Air Force Space Surveillance Sites in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
Wildfire and Fuels Management Plan, Canyons of the Ancients, Colorado. Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (incorporating a Wildfire and Fuels Management Plan) for BLM.
Wildfire Hazard Analysis and Mitigation Plan, Frost Creek PUD. Environmental Impact Report, Eagle County, Colorado.
Wildfire Fuels Hazard Assessment, New Mexico State Forestry, Bureau of Indian Affairs. Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico.
Community Wildfire Protection Plan, Harney County, Oregon. County-wide assessment includes nine communities.
Community Wildfire Protection Plan, Lake County, Oregon. Five communities and Collins Timber Company managed holdings in south-central Lake County.
Wildland Fire Management Plan, Buckley Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado. Compliance with federal mandates for military installations.
Community Wildfire Protection Plans, Spruce Bark Beetle Mitigation Office, Kenai Peninsula. Eight communities in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska.
Community Wildfire Protection Plans, US Forest Service, Alaska. Two communities in the Chugach National Forest.
Wildland Fire Management and Fuels Plan, California BLM. Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement revision (incorporating a Wildfire and Fuels Management Plan) for the Southern Diablo Range and Central Coastof California.
Wildfire Hazard and Mitigation Plan, Homeplace Ranch PUD. Environmental Impact Report, Monument, Colorado.